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<H2 CLASS="section"><A NAME="htoc103">9.1</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;ECL<SUP><I>i</I></SUP>PS<SUP><I>e</I></SUP> primitives to read/write EXDR terms</H2>

The ECL<SUP><I>i</I></SUP>PS<SUP><I>e</I></SUP> predicates to create and interpret EXDR-representation
read from and write directly to ECL<SUP><I>i</I></SUP>PS<SUP><I>e</I></SUP> streams. This means that
EXDR-format can be used readily to communicate via files, pipes,
sockets, queues etc.
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<A HREF="../bips/kernel/ioterm/write_exdr-2.html"><B>write_exdr(+Stream, +Term)</B></A><A NAME="@default319"></A><DD CLASS="dd-description"><BR>
	This predicate writes terms in exdr format.
	The type of the generated EXDR-term is the type resulting
	from the "natural" mapping of the Eclipse terms.
	Atoms are written as structures of arity 0 (not as strings).
	Note that all information about variable sharing, variable
	names and variable attributes is lost in the EXDR representation.<BR>
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<DT CLASS="dt-description"><A HREF="../bips/kernel/ioterm/read_exdr-2.html"><B>read_exdr(+Stream, -Term)</B></A><A NAME="@default320"></A><DD CLASS="dd-description"><BR>
	This predicate reads exdr format and constructs a
	corresponding Eclipse term.
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Please refer to chapter <A HREF="embroot016.html#chaptcl">5</A> for the Tcl primitives,
and to chapter <A HREF="embroot041.html#chapjava">8</A> for the Java primitives for manipulating
EXDR terms. <BR>
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